Using Visual Material

Compare your current or past use of visual instructional material with how web 2.0 technology could be used to present them. Are there unique ways that you and your students could collaborate with photosharing?

Within our OLLI program we frequently use visual instructional material, particularly in art classes, history classes, and opera and other music appreciation classes. Currently the materials may be hard copy pictures presented on overhead projector, power point presentations, and canned video presentations which have already selected the images to be presented. In exploring Flickr, I can see many opportunities for using this to quickly gather examples for use during classes. For example, we just finished presently a class on Arlington National Cemetery. The facilitator spent many hours gleaning through books to gather photographs to use during her presentation. I can now see that she probably could have gather the vast majority right from flickr.
Beyond adding to the classroom for OLLI, our OLLI participants produce amazing works of art. We could photograph and share their work, even present a series of in progress art work, as a way of showing each student their own progress, and share their work with the world.